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Adonai   Listen
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Adonai  n.  A Hebrew name for God, usually translated in the Old Testament by the word "Lord". Note: The later Jews used its vowel points to fill out the tetragrammaton Yhvh, or Ihvh, "the incommunicable name," and in reading substituted "Adonai".






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Adonai" Quotes from Famous Books



... many phrases which were fulfilled at the Incarnation: "Rorate coeli desuper et nubes pluant Justum; O Adonai, veni ad redimendum nos; Emitte Agnum, Domine, Dominatorum terrae; Orietur sicut sol Salvator mundi et descendet in uterum Virginis." Centuries have passed since the Saviour came, and yet the Church wishes us to repeat the sublime prayers and prophecies which associate themselves with the coming ...
— The Divine Office • Rev. E. J. Quigley



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